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After signing four-year multimedia deals with Sky Sports and Eurosport in recent weeks, Major League Soccer "is eyeing additional deals around the globe, including in Latin and South America, Africa, and Asia," according to Ian Thomas of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. MLS Business Ventures President/Managi...

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Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid's Spanish Cup decider "will feature the highest priced final tickets in Europe" for a national cup competition, according to the BBC. While the cheapest tickets for Friday's game are €10 ($13) cheaper than last year's, the best seats will cost between €220-& ...

Serie A side AS Roma has been fined €50,000 ($65,000) by the Lega Calcio "after a section of supporters racially abused three Milan players during Sunday night's Serie A game at San Siro," according to the PA. The match, which finished goalless, "was suspended for two minutes shortly after half ...

Spain's General Union of Workers (UGT) and Workers' Commissions Union (CCOO) "are with Madrid 2020," according to José Félix Diaz of EL CONFIDENCIAL. Both parties made their support for the Olympic bid clear Monday morning at the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE)'s headquarters. UGT Secr ...

German free-to-air TV channel Sport1 "has received great ratings for its broadcast of the 2013 IIHF World Championship," according to Alexander Krei of DWDL. Germany's preliminary round matchup against the U.S. Sunday attracted 710,000 viewers. The number translated into a market share of 4.6%. In t ...

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes "displayed its new Twitter handle, @McLarenF1," on the front wing endplate of the team's cars during the Spanish Grand Prix last weekend, according to Chloe Smith of CAMPAIGN LIVE. The new handle "was promoted on the cars driven by Jenson Button and Sergio Perez," and repla ...

La Liga Levante President Quico Catalán "has before him one of the most tense moments in the club's history," according to Miguel Ángel Rodríguez of MARCA. The first and most important issue is "what to do with the players implicated in the controversy unleashed after the game a ...

Four days from the Copa del Rey final between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, "tickets have still not run out," according to AS. Real Madrid extended the period for ticket sales because "fans rejected the tickets initially offered after the cheapest ones ran out immediately." Starting Monday ...

Premier Rugby Ltd., which represents the English Premiership clubs, and the NFL "are to jointly back an innovative rugby union plan in the U.S.," according to Tom Dart of the London GUARDIAN. London Irish "will play an exhibition game this summer" against a U.S. team "blending international stars an ...

British property investor Andrew Ruhan "has bought a 2pc stake in the Lotus Formula One team" for an estimated price of £1M ($1.5M), according to Christian Sylt of the London TELEGRAPH. In February, Ruhan "joined the board of the Oxfordshire-based team, but it denied that he had become an inve ...

The membership figure of the German Football Federation (DFB) has reached the highest value in the federation's history. The federation has a total of 6,822,233 members, which is 22,105 more than the previous year. The DFB is divided into 21 state federations. The number of football clubs has remain ...